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Beeper's next iMessage for Android fix requires access to a Mac (9to5google.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

damn, i accidentally deleted my comment. i wish there was a confirmation dialog for that!

so, again (sorry)...

There's plenty to criticize Apple for, and Apple gets a lot of hate on lemmy, esp from android users, for not being FOSS and being closed off from non-Apple users. however, for a community so dedicated to android and FOSS that seems to hate everything Apple, this is the seemly one exception where the android community demands access to the closed ecosystem rather than to develop a FOSS alternative, an ideal and directive found all over lemmy and the internet at large.

If Apple and their iCloud ecosystem are so terrible and inferior (a claim i've seen countless times, esp regardin iMessage and how RCS is superior), then why the furvor over getting access to iMessage? it strikes me as contradictory to the values touted here so often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’m also confused by this.

Also, why people think that people need to be convinced to use iMessage. I just tell people to text me and give them my number. If they have an iPhone, great. We can play SeaBattle! If not, then I guess our messages won’t be encrypted and we won’t be doing anything illegal together. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just a bunch of people in here trying to justify why they’re upset that other people don’t want to do things the same way they do.

I would prefer that iMessage fall back to RCS rather than SMS, but whatever. Apparently that’s coming and I’m not downloading another app to message one person. Especially not one owned by Facebook.